We are living a unique moment: internet technologies are the default
infrastructure for society, not just how we communicate but also how we
organise our social life, politics, and economy, all the way down to our
material environments, like cities. Our world is eaten by the internet.
This means that those who control the internet control the bounds of
public speech, economic production, social cohesion, and politics,
making its infrastructure a core political terrain in the networked age.
The book’s chapters cover a wide set of topics, spanning from the
global politics of content moderation by internet infrastructure to the
colonialism inherent in the race to plug the moon, from the harms
wrought by blockchain companies in rural America to the particularities
of online censorship across Asia. The chapters take on thorny topics,
discussing power consolidation in the advertisement and cloud industry,
the role of internet infrastructure in the war in Ukraine, and tech’s
environmental impact—amongst others. How can we ensure our internet
infrastructure sustains us?

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